No. No. My father worked all his life as a carpenter and made a decent living, paid into the system, paid his taxes, never drew a dime in welfare. He did retire and drew a pension from working for many years at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama back when rocket launching pads were made up of crude materials and packed with dry ice for cooling during launching the early rockets. I doubt that many of the WWII veterans expected to sit on their butts for the rest of their lives. Now, the later ones, I don’t know, but about the time of the Korean War, the spoiled, picky attitudes of many POW’s who served during that war died in prison camps simply because they were too picky to eat the simple foods they were given and had readily available to them in the camps. For instance, they were given soybeans, but wouldn’t eat them. Maybe they didn’t know how to cook them (they have to be cooked a long time and are a source of protein). Explained in a book entitled, “In Every War But One”.
My father was raised hunting squirrels, fishing, farming and killing snakes with his bare hands or maybe a rock if he could find one big enough. He did think that battle sustained injuries deserved treatment if possible, and died with shrapnel in his hands from wounds sustained in Italy. He was a hardened soldier of N. Africa, Sicily, Italy and Germany by the time the war ended, and even then, he was set for the duration which would have included Japan.